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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ro1974, post: 2162618, member: 73358&quot;]Mine collection</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 114-116. </p><p><br /></p><p>IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P,</p><p>laureate and draped bust right </p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan seated right on platform, accompanied by two officers and guard, addressing six soldiers (one with horse); three standards behind soldiers; IMPERATOR VIII / S C in two lines in exergue</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 656; Woytek 548v.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rough</p><p>24.8.g, 34mm. Sestertius</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan&#039;s acclamation by his troops as imperator for the eighth time occurred after the fall of the city of Singara in 115 during his campaigns on the eastern frontier. Singara itself was a strongly fortified post at the northern extremity of Mesopotamia, which for a while was occupied by the Romans as an advanced colony against the Persians. It was the camp of legio I Parthica. Its position, south-east of Nisibis, has not been clearly defined by ancient writers, Stephanus of Byzantium calling it a city of Arabia, near Edessa, and Ptolemy placing it on the Tigris. There can, however, be no doubt that it and the mountain near it are represented in the present day by the district of Singar (in modern-day Iraq).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://s24.postimg.org/e1kxa0ys5/2015_05_29_20_07_12.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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